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Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open-source std for connecting AI applications to external systems. @lisalibrarian.bsky.social proposes libraries treat MCP connectors (+ APIs) as a collection, expect providers to describe them + metadata in machine-readable form. @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social

STM Announces 20 Innovators Selected to Participate in the Upcoming Innovator Fair (via @stmassoc.bsky.social) stm-assoc.org/2026-innovat... #scholcomm #AI #STM #innovation #publishing

Opera Begins "Shipping Local #AI Models in Its #Browsers" press.opera.com/2026/10/27/o... & Opera Introduces a New Web Standard To Let Users Deploy AI Locally In Their Browser (via @techcrunch.com) techcrunch.com/2026/10/27/o... #LocalAI #WebAI #standards

New Policy Brief: What Americans #Trust About #Government #Data (via @datafoundation.bsky.social) datafoundation.org/news/public-... #usgov

A Behind the Scenes Tour of the Internet Archive's Physical Archive in Richmond, California (via @archive.org) blog.archive.org/2026/10/27/b... #archives

#AI Hallucination Goes to Court: A Global Mapping of Emerging Legal Issues (via @futureofprivacy.bsky.social) fpf.org/blog/ai-hall... #hallucinations #legal

OpenAI's partner content arrives in ChatGPT pre-summarized while the rest of the web gets raw scraps (via @thedecoder.bsky.social) the-decoder.com/openais-part... #GenAI #publishing #publishers

Full Text: Anthropic Files For IPO. Here's the Full Text of the S-1 Document www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

Company News: Springer Nature and Google #DeepMind Announcing a Research Partnership to Co-Design an AI Peer Review Assistant www.infodocket.com/2026/10/26/c... #scholcomm #publishing #peerreview #AI @springernature.com #GoogleDeepMind

UPDATED: Best Practice on Generative and Agentic #AI Usage #Metrics (via @countermetrics.bsky.social) www.countermetrics.org/ai-phase-two/ #schcolcomm #publishing #GenAI #AgenticAI

Researchers Made #AI Agents Better by Turning Academic Papers Into Working Code — No Retraining Required (via @venturebeat.com) venturebeat.com/orcestration... #AgenticAI

AI-Assisted Paper on Z-Library Cites a TorrentFreak Article That Doesn’t Exist (via #TorrentFreak) torrentfreak.com/ai-assisted-... #scholcomm #GenAI #journals

KU Leuven #Libraries and Google #Digitise More Than 100,000 #Books (via #KULeuven) nieuws.kuleuven.be/en/content/2... @speccoll-kuleuven.bsky.social #digitize #Belgium

OCLC Expands #LIS Education Program to Support Hands-On Learning For Future #Library Leaders (via @oclc.org) www.oclc.org/en/news/rele... #libraries #librarians #cataloging #metadata #linkeddata

UPDATE From Ontario Council of University #Libraries (OCUL): Advancing Responsible #AI in #Libraries Through Collaboration, Learning, and Innovation (via @ocul-libraries.bsky.social ocul.on.ca/ai-machine-l... #GenAI #virtualreference #audiototext #govdocs

New Report From Tow-Knight Center: “The Three- Layer Cake: Public-Interest Information in an Al-Intermediated Age”; #Libraries, #Archives, Scholarly #Publishers, and Other Groups Mentioned www.infodocket.com/2026/10/22/n... #GLAM #scholcomm #AI #GenAI @towknight.bsky.social

Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) Infra Finder (a Discovery Tool) Nears 200 #Infrastructures (via @investinopen.bsky.social) investinopen.org/blog/infra-f... #openinfrastructure #scholcomm #libraries

"The British Library Has to Modernise — Or Risk Decline" (Op/Ed by Jeremy Silver, Chief Executive of the British Library; via @thetimes.com) www.thetimes.com/comment/colu... #libraries #nationallibraries @britishlibrary.bsky.social

Now Available: Fueling Scholarly Discovery: The 2026 #ORCID Public #Data File info.orcid.org/orcid-public... #scholcomm #PID #metadata

#Vibe #Researching: A PRISMA 2020 Systematic Review of Silent Failure, #Reproducibility, and Competence in LLM-Assisted Research (preprint; via MetaArXiv) osf.io/preprints/me... #LLMs #AI

Upcoming Online Event (10/29): The Future of the Library of Congress (via @authorsalliance.bsky.social & @archive.org) www.authorsalliance.org/2026/10/21/t... #libraries #copyright #legislation

The #ARLDailyIntelligence brings you today’s essential news & analysis for library leaders & advocates. Check out today’s top stories! www.arl.org/daily-intell... #Research #Libraries #Archives #SpecColls #HigherEd #AI #OA #ScholComm #Advocacy #PublicPolicy @infodocket.bsky.social

New Journal Article: "How #AI Agents #Search" (via @plosone.org) journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... #AgenticAI #RAG #LLMs

Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly #Publishing (New Version Available) www.infodocket.com/2026/10/21/n... #scholcomm #scholarlypublishing #bestpractices @oaspa.bsky.social @publicationethics.bsky.social @doaj.bsky.social

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Launches Guide to Help Parents and Youth Protect #Privacy Online (via @eff.org) www.eff.org/press/releas... #onlineprivacy #digitalprivacy

New Discussion Paper: #W3C and the State of the #Web in the #AI Era www.w3.org/2026/10/w3c-... #GenAI #AgenticAI #standards

Bridging the AI Divide: A Collaborative Framework for Critical #AI Literacy in Public #Libraries (Conference Poster) www.infodocket.com/2026/10/19/b... #AILiteracy #publiclibraries @ifla.org @uncsdis.bsky.social

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) #Libraries Launches Open Index Project to Track the Evolution of Open Knowledge www.infodocket.com/2026/10/19/c... #scholcomm #openknowledge #libraries @library.cmu.edu

Library of Congress Acquires #Letters Written by Former First Ladies Martha Washington and Mary Todd Lincoln (via @librarycongress.bsky.social) newsroom.loc.gov/news/library... #libraries #ushistory

Cambridge Professor Takes Own University to Court Over New Library 'Megabuilding' (via @the-independent.com) www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home... #libraries #highereducation

Tested But Not Evaluated: Social Science and the #Assessment of #AI in Public Programs (New Guide / White Paper From @datafoundation.bsky.social) datafoundation.org/news/reports... #socialscience

Gartner Identifies the Top Strategic #Technology #Trends for 2027 www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/... #AI #SovereignTech #AgenticAI #LargeQuantitative #WorldModels

Prompting the Archive: Evaluating #GenAI for Primary Source Discovery in Reference Services (New Journal Article; via Reference Services Review) www.emerald.com/rsr/article-... #scholcomm #libraries #primarysources #AI

How We’re Approaching #AI at #bioRxiv and #medRxiv (via @openrxiv.bsky.social) openrxiv.org/approach-to-... #preprints #repositories #GenAI #scholcomm

An #AI Agent Joined a Listserv of Top Internet #Researchers. The Reply-All Chaos is Still Unfolding (via @wired.com) www.wired.com/story/an-ai-... #AgenticAI

#PubMed Central Adds Collections and Saved Search Features to PMC Search (via NLM Technical Bulletin) www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbul... #pubmedcentral #libraries

Spotify Has Pulled More Than 50 Million ‘AI Slop and Spam’ Tracks Out of Its Recommendations This Year (via #MusicBusinessWorldwide) www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/spotify-has-... #music #AI #AISlop

How to Compare and Strengthen Research Systems (via @nature.com) www.nature.com/articles/d41... #research #researchsystems